Eva Petkova is a Bulgarian-American biostatistician interested in the application of statistics to psychiatry,[1] and known for her research on regression model comparison, brain imaging, and mental disorders.
She is a professor of population health and of child and adolescent psychology at the New York University School of Medicine,[2] and a research scientist at the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research.
[4] After postdoctoral research at Harvard University, she joined the Columbia University faculty in 1994, in biostatistics and psychiatry, and as director of biostatistics at the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
[1] Petkova was one of the founders of the Annual Symposium on Statistics in Psychiatry,[1] later renamed as the Thomas R. Ten Have Symposium on Statistics in Mental Health.
[5] In 2014 Petkova was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association "for significant research contributions to statistical methodology in mental health research; for dedicated leadership in advancing the use of statistical methods for the analysis of mental health data; and for devoted mentoring of students and medical researchers".